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Human Rights Watch

The largest human rights organization based in the United States, Human Rights Watch started in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, monitoring the compliance of Soviet bloc countries with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords. In the 1980s Americas Watch was established to monitor abuses by both sides in the war in Central America, and thereafter other committees were set up to cover other regions of the world such as Asia and Africa. In 1988 all the "Watch" committees were united to form Human Rights Watch. The organization's researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world, and their findings are then published in dozens of books and reports every year.

This database contains annual reports (1996 - 2013) and selected country reports (1992 - 2013).  Website: www.hrw.org
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"Chained Like Prisoners" - Abuses Against People with Psychosocial Disabilities in Somaliland

25 October 2015 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

Ghana: Monitor Mental Health Facilities

10 March 2014 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country News

Ghana: Urgent Need to Fix Mental Health System

19 November 2013 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country News

China: End Arbitrary Detention in Mental Health Institutions

3 May 2013 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country News

"How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?": Child Marriage in Yemen

7 December 2011 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

Failing its Families: Lack of Paid Leave and Work-Family Supports in the US

23 February 2011 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

Croatia: Locked Up, Limited Lives

23 September 2010 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country News

"Once You Enter, You Never Leave," Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Intellectual or Mental Disabilities in Croatia

23 September 2010 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

Universal Periodic Review: Croatia

19 April 2010 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

Undue Punishment: Abuses against Prisoners in Georgia

14 September 2006 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

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